Ligovsky prospekt, Saint Petersburg (1930s)
There no trees on Ligovsky now.
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
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Leningrad 1962
View of the building. You can see neon signs for Aeroflot (left) and a fashion house (right).
Vosstaniya square in St Petersburg - metro station pavillion (1957)
Saint Petersburg, Summer Gardens fence. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich, 1960s
Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich. Leningrad, 1960s.
Nevsky prospekt in St Petersburg, 1960s
Moscow in 1961
Russian avant garde artist Varvara Stepanova at work (1924) ()
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Polytechnical Museum in Moscow (1964)
Pushkinskaya square in Moscow, 1964
This photo speaks to me. I had a short period in my life when I woke up at 4, got a bunch of newspapers fresh off the print and walked around the designated area to put them up in the reading stands.
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